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Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "picturing" in early modern English literature. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive and varied picture of the relationship between visual and verbal in the early modern period, while also contributing to the understanding of the literary context in which Shakespeare wrote. Using different methodological approaches and taking into account a great variety of texts, including Elizabethan sonnet sequences, metaphysical poetry, famous as well as anonymous plays, and court masques, the book opens new perspectives on the literary modes of "picturing" and on the relationship between this creative act and the tense artistic, religious and political background of early modern Europe. The first section explores different modes of looking at works of art and their relation with technological innovations and religious controversies, while the chapters in the second part highlight the multifaceted connections between European visual arts and English literary production. The third section explores the functions performed by portraits on the page and the stage, delving into the complex question of the relationship between visual and verbal representation. Finally, the chapters in the fourth section re-appraise early modern reflections on the relationship between word and image and on their respective power in light of early-seventeenth-century visual culture, with particular reference to the masque genre.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Aknowledgements
Introduction. Camilla Caporicci and Armelle Sabatier.
PART I: To Look or not to Look at Pictures?
Chapter 1. Cristiano Ragni.
An Edifying "Pictura Loquens": Alberico Gentili's Commentatio and his Defence of Drama in Elizabethan Oxford
Chapter 2. James A. Knapp.
Looking At and Through Pictures in Donne's Lyrics
Chapter 3. Chloe Porter.
"A Painted Devil": The Matter and Making of Images in Macbeth
Chapter 4. B. J Sokol.
Mirrors, Pictures, Optics, Shakespeare
PART II: Confluences: English Texts and European Paintings
Chapter 5. Rocco Coronato.
Over the Edge: Shakespeare, Judith, and the Virtuous Use of Female Indiscretion and Deception
Chapter 6. Fiammetta Dionisio.
"Be Her Sense but as a Monument": Lost Icons and Substitutive Figures in Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Chapter 7. Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard.
The Notion of Picturing in Early Modern Literature: The Case of the Miniaturist Isaac Oliver (c.1585-1617)
PART III: Portraits on the Page and the Stage
Chapter 8. Camilla Caporicci.
"Take this picture which I heere present thee": The Art of Portraiture in the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences
Chapter 9. Catherine Belsey.
Narrative Portraiture
Chapter 10. Armelle Sabatier.
Picturing in Little or in Stone? Miniature versus Monument in The Triall of Chevalry (Anonymous, 1605)
Chapter 11. Emanuel Stelzer.
Performing Portraits: The Portrait as Prop and Its Performative Dimension in Early Modern English Drama
PART IV: The Power of Visual and Verbal
Chapter 12. Rosanna Camerlingo.
Prospero's Rainbow: Political Miracles in The Tempest
Chapter 13. Keir Elam.
"Picture is the invention of heaven": Ben Jonson and the Paradox of the Visual
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